Peter Blasser

In 2003, as part of a grant from the Daniel Langlois foundation, I constructed and performed a Shinth, an instrument designed for circuit bending.
I also started Ciat-Lonbarde in 2003, with the Ambrazier, a digital delay instrument, which later became Tranoe, Cocolase, Cocostuber, then Cocoquantus, and finally Cafe Quantum.
Ciat-Lonbarde also released kits for the Fourses and Fyral which are played by touch and other circuit bending techniques.
Ciat-Lonbarde also released the sidrassi, sidrazzi, and tetrazzi, which became the sidrax and tetrax that are available today.
The Plumbutter came about after a long process of prototyping an experimental drum machine. The Rolzer is its source of free jazz energy.
Deerhorn started as a series of hanging instruments to explore invisible (radio) fields in space
It became the Deerhorn and Tierhorn series of instruments.
Steve Korn and I started Shbobo in the Fall of 2010, which focused exclusively on gestural instruments for USB.
Shnth and Tarsh (Shtar) are the two results.
The Tocante line of musical instruments is "about" and "touching" the materials of electronics. Each touchpad represents a pitch according to industry "preferred numbers," chosen by old wartime engineers for non-musical purposes. Here they form a unique and haunting musical scale, not unlike that of a gamelan or the neutral intervals of Persian music. Beyond these base pitches, three golden sandrodes flank each touchpad; touching these androgynous nodes yields intermodulation, pitch and timbral shifts, and emergent chaotic masses. The instruments come in three flavors: thyris the triangle, bistab the square, and phashi the circle. The oscillators sound like a bowed string, a most powerful clarinet, and a howling serene whistle, respectively. Each responds to touch differently. Solar panels charge the onboard batteries, that power the oscillators and a speaker. They are the perfect self-contained instrument for nightly music at the campground.
It is also available in red, and other flavors: zenert is filtered noise, karper is karpluss-strong, and studworth is the kit.
Ieaskul F. Mobenthey is a series of modules in the Eurorack format.